From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265357AbTLHJoA (ORCPT ); Mon, 8 Dec 2003 04:44:00 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265358AbTLHJoA (ORCPT ); Mon, 8 Dec 2003 04:44:00 -0500 Received: from hermine.idb.hist.no ([158.38.50.15]:47368 "HELO hermine.idb.hist.no") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S265357AbTLHJn6 (ORCPT ); Mon, 8 Dec 2003 04:43:58 -0500 Message-ID: <3FD44A6F.2060707@aitel.hist.no> Date: Mon, 08 Dec 2003 10:54:55 +0100 From: Helge Hafting Organization: AITeL, HiST User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031107 Debian/1.5-3 X-Accept-Language: no, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Tomasz Torcz CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Large-FAT32-Filesystem Bug References: <3FD0555F.5060608@gmx.de> <005301c3bb32$11a041a0$1225a8c0@kittycat> <20031207122650.GA30938@hh.idb.hist.no> <20031207122034.GA17042@irc.pl> In-Reply-To: <20031207122034.GA17042@irc.pl> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Tomasz Torcz wrote: > On Sun, Dec 07, 2003 at 01:26:50PM +0100, Helge Hafting wrote: > >>On Fri, Dec 05, 2003 at 05:17:00AM -0800, jdow wrote: >> >>>From: "Torsten Scheck" >>> >>>>Dear friends: >>>> >>>>I already sent a message to the VFAT maintainer, but I decided >>>>to additionally bother this list with a warning. This way some >>>>readers might avoid data loss. >>> >>>This all may be moot. Microsoft is about to charge a royalty for >>>use of the FAT file system. http://www.microsoft.com/mscorp/ip/tech/fat.asp >>> >> >>The claim some patents, but aren't FAT so old that they have >>expired? > > > Patents for storing long names of files (which Microsoft is charging for) > are from 1995 or something. > No problem then - long filenames on fat is something I only see a need for when sharing a partition with windows - you then have a licence to use fat through the windows licence. Digital cameras and such simply don't need long names. Helge Hafting